“BOO” and “JOY” Apothecary Jars Revisited…

We were looking back over all of our posts from the past year, and by far, these two projects have had the most interest on our little blog!!

It never fails, each week these continue to rank very high in our stats. Of course with the beginning Pinterest, well, let’s just say we have been shocked by the numbers!

We have a lot of questions emailed to us daily about where to get them, how to make them, or just how adorable they are!

They were based on a tutorial found at Shanty 2 Chic . We followed their tutorial, but we did add an extra piece of wood under the glass jars to give it some extra visual weight and stability. Another little extra was spraying each with a semi-gloss poly to give it a very finished look!

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Since we first made them {about a year ago} some of the supplies have been harder to come by, so we thought we would try to give you a little update on where to find the items…

1. The glass jars are still at Hobby Lobby {we used the medium sized ones HERE}

2. The candlesticks are from both Michaels and Hobby Lobby {You can find the 9 inch one HERE and the 6 3/4 inch one HERE . The 4 inch one is no longer available at any of my local craft stores. }

3. The finials no longer look the same at Hobby Lobby but HERE is a similar one at Hobby Lobby.

4. The cute little wooden letters came from Hobby Lobby as well and were painted black, you can find them HERE!

I am not aware if you can get the finials online at AC Moore. try looking in the unfinished wood section.

Kelly, The candlesticks at my HL{Columbia,SC} are in the unfinished wood section where the wooden letters are. They only restock ever so often which may be why they are not there? Try finding something similar that is finished that you can spray paint!

Thanks ” Meand4boyz”!! We would LOVE to see how they turn out!!! I can’t respond to you directly as you have your profile as a “no-reply”, but I wanted to say a BIG HUGE THANK YOU to you!!! LOTS of folks are having trouble with supplies at HL and Michaels and this info will be a great help! You are the best!! 😉

So glad to help out. I am going to try and fix the no reply, I am not sure where to find it. I also wanted to ask if you know how tall your wooden letters are? I went to HL today and found them, but of course there are not enough for our big group and I forgot to measure so I can order online. Thanks SO much for answering all our questions. We will show you how they turn out. So excited to make them!

I just got my shipment from craftparts.com today. I am extremely happy with the 6 and 9 inch candlesticks. I am disappointed with the 3 inch ones as they look like doll pieces, short and skinny. My husband and I are going to try and find some other piece of wood to add some length to them before the group does this craft. The finials I got are also small and I would have preferred bigger. We chose the 2-7/8 ones because they were $.35 each, but I think it would look better with the 4-1/4 ones which are $1.50 each. We were trying to keep the cost down for our large group and they will look fine, but if I was just doing it on my own and not buying in bulk I would get the larger ones. Hope this helps.Happy with the company’s service and shipping.

Just letting everyone know that I found the circle plaques at Joannes because Hobby Lobby was out of stock. They special ordered what I needed (because I needed a large quantity).I bought the 4 inch for under the jar and 5 inch for the base.

I absolutely love this idea and I just have one question about the jars……can they be 6.5 inches tall and almost 4.5 inches in diameter? I just found some canisters that are that size but wasn’t sure if they were too “fat”.

I can’t tell you how much I love these! I got all the stuff to make them, but have a few questions. Did you use wood glue Or like E6000 to glue the candlesticks to the wood bases? And, did you glue the jar to the wood piece as well, and if so what did you use?

Hey guys if you have a question, it may already be answered here in the comments. If you do not see an answer we may have answered the comment directly, so just leave your question or email us and we will try to answer ASAP!! 🙂

I cannot for the life of me find a candlestick anywhere between the size of 3″ and 6″. How do you think it would look if I used the 6″ size for my smallest candlestick and used an 11″ size as the tallest?

I’m in the middle of making these and I’m having trouble getting the acrylic paint to stay on the jar lids. Any fixes for this? I also heard you can get ll the pieces for this in a bundle online! Anyone else know/ hear of where it’s available?